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😎 `Lighten your cognitive load. Level up with the Alexa Skills Kit Video Tutorial <https://alexatutorial.com/>`_.


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Welcome to Flask-Ask
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Building high-quality Alexa skills for Amazon Echo Devices takes time. Flask-Ask makes it easier and much more fun.
Use Flask-Ask with `ngrok <https://ngrok.com/>`_ to eliminate the deploy-to-test step and get work done faster.

Flask-Ask:

* Has decorators to map Alexa requests and intent slots to view functions
* Helps construct ask and tell responses, reprompts and cards
* Makes session management easy
* Allows for the separation of code and speech through Jinja templates
* Verifies Alexa request signatures

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Follow along with this quickstart on `Amazon
<https://developer.amazon.com/public/community/post/Tx14R0IYYGH3SKT/Flask-Ask-A-New-Python-Framework-for-Rapid-Alexa-Skills-Kit-Development>`_.

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